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BROOKS, BANKS & SMITH CORP.,
H.Q. COMMERCIAL AVIATION,
21 SMITH BLOCK, Telephone 16J
FRAMINGHAM, MASS, U.S.A.

April 19th, 1920.

Dear Brooks;
This is the big day here. The Marathon is on and we should have had a plane on the Muster field.
The Jenny 0X5 we told you about has 150 hours flying, and consequently we have no use for it. The best bet now is the new Jenny 0X5 for 2800 (two thousand, eight hundred) dollars which the Aeromarine Plane and Motor company offers.

We both went down to Revere to look over landing grounds yesterday and as we neared the beach we happened to look in the open doorway of an old factory building and saw a Jenny inside. On investigating we found Wills underneath the fuselage painting the bus. We had quite a talk with him and he told us that Groah just came back from England and sold an Avro for $ 4700 (four thousand, seven hundred dollars). We put the question to him about coming out to Framingham, and intimated that he ought to let Framingham go at least until we had started. He said that he did not think he would come out to Framingham this year. That is all he would say. He called our attention to a bill now about to be passed, that provides for towns villages and counties having separate authorities for granting flying licenses, which means that a pilot must have a license or buy one from each town in this state which he happened to stop at, and provides for a penalty of 500 (five hundred) dollars or 3 months in the pen, if the law is not conformed with.
This is a most unintelligent piece of legislation, and all the pilots and aero clubs in the state intend to fight its passage. No doubt some legislation is needed but not that variety.